Navid Kalani, Naser Hatami, Sajed Ali, Neema John Mehramiz, Fatemeh Rahmanian, Esmaeil Raeyat Doost, Marzieh Haghbeen, Samaneh Abiri, Mahdi Foroughian, Mohsen Ebrahimi
Objective: To compare the characteristics of the emergency medical services (EMS) brought COVID-19 patients versus self-referred walk-in patients. Methods: This was a Cross-sectional study of COVID-19 infected cases in Jahrom, south of Iran. Age, sex, the symptoms of beginning days' passing, respiratory distress, PO2 at arrival, admission length and in-hospital death were retrieved for confirming COVID-19 cases in the whole 2020 year. Respiratory distress was considered as the sign that agitates the patient to call EMS care...
January 2022: Bulletin of Emergency and Trauma